The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-05-25
THE NATIONAL DRILL
fhc Primary PHradc-Thc Infantry
Competitive Drili--fiCd Cross.

tbC Primary Paradc-Thc Infantry
Competitive Drill-Iicd Gross.
WASHINGroN. May 2i.-lntervals
at Camp Washington between break.
fast, guard mounting and other fes-
lures of daily routine, were availcd OF
by apublic appearance in tie White
House grounds. The competitive
drill Of infantry began y few minutes
past 10 o'clock The competing
companies were limited in numbers
TO twenty.tour men each. with
three officers and two guides. The
programme of manuu'Vrcs was to be
delivered To each company command.
cr one hour before the time allotted
tor the corps appearance and the men
were thereby to be kept in ignorance
Of manuUvres. They were ~ not ox-
ocutc until orders were actually given.
In general terms they were TO cNer-
else first IN school of the suldicrs--
hat j. without arms. Then IN
the manual OF arms md
/ Ia-tly IN the school OF
/ company. Thirty minutes were al
lottcd each company TO complete its
. Programme. II hat fallen the lot OF
Company a, Capt. j. l.. Amury, Of
the First Minnesota regiment. the
. Minneapolis Light Infantry, TO first
make "A display OF its sClaicry abili.
tics. It appeared promptly ana per
formed its work crcditAO.N. though
1t lacked about tour movements OF
completing it, programme when its
successor appeared.
the RED CROSS
hospital service is q feature OF the
lencampueu, The whole thing /, in
charge of Clara Barton. the president
of the United States branch of the
Red Cross, and has been arranged
Just Us if in reality there were war.
Strange TO say tins is the first mili-
tory service the American branch of
the Red Cross has seen. Miss Barton,
through whose eilort- the United
states WAS brought into tho Red
Cross alliance with other nations of
the world, has, of course. seen such
actual service, both in the war Of the
rebellion, as a nurse, and "a member
of the Red Cross through the entire
Franco Prussjau war. But il wa
only IN lSs. that the Uni
tel states was induced to
sign the treaty which gave the Red
Cross legal existence here, aud there
has been no accession for it TO perform
it, proper AUCTIONS aimee. Under the
treaty the Red Cross ID respected OF
sll nations aud is supreme on all bat.
tie fields, Every foreign nation OF
any Importance had joined tho ALI
uucc before the United states had
>lgncd aud ratified the treaty. A. II
changed the articles of war. il re-
quIrcd the action OF congress to max,
II legal. aud, in order TO get cohgrc,
Interested in il, Miss Barton mad adj
dcd to the dulias that the American
branch would undertake. to perform
the rclirt Of suffering from hoods
storms. fires aud all sorts of grcu'
disasters. This sort of service l. moi
done by the society in any other
country. Hero tie Red Gross
has done so much service IN casc7 O
disaster by the elements that its prop
or ana prime iunctlOu--the relicf o
suffering on the hattlciicld-ha been
IN II measure overlooked in the publ,
ml"d. II OF necessity takes part it
ths cncalupment, rs it is an import
AM attachment To the militia of III,
country, and would have 10 be carried
into the field in case of war. Their
assistance during war is obliged to BIT
accepted, and rs Miss Barton SAYS
had the Red Cross been in existence
during the last war, such thing u
"Andersouvillc could never nay,
been They viii see that no such
horrors are permitted IN this en-
campmout. Every preparation Ia
been made o render the hospital ser
vice perfect.